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https://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?newsid=2218642&tick=MOT Motorola Provides Scalability for Manitoba Telecom Services'Popular MTS TV Service 3/29/04 Mar 29, 2004 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- By Deploying Motorola's Multi-Service Access Platform, MTS Ensures Ability to Massively Scale and Profitably Accelerate Growth as It Delivers Next-Generation Advanced Services ROHNERT PARK, Calif. and WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 29 /PRNewswire- FirstCall/ - - Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MTS), Manitoba's preeminent, full-service telecommunications provider, recently announced a significant milestone by welcoming the 10,000th customer of the MTS TV service. Using the Motorola Multi-Service Access Platform to support the delivery of advanced services such as multi-stream digital television, high-speed Internet, and integrated on-screen telephony, MTS has established a foundation that will enable the delivery of a wide array of next generation services and applications such as Video-on-Demand and Pay-Per-View. Leveraging the abilities of the Motorola platform, MTS is capable of delivering a rich portfolio of advanced services via a proven standards-based VDSL 998 delivery solution. The scalability of this platform ensures a viable growth path for MTS TV, allowing MTS to easily scale the service for thousands of subscribers, and to expand its MTS TV offerings to include support for a wide variety of high-speed consumer based solutions such as in-home wireless networking and network-based gaming. The Motorola-based delivery of video and entertainment services enables traditional telecommunications service providers to deliver the 'Triple Play' of voice, video and data over traditional telecommunication infrastructure. This 'Triple Play'strategy opens substantial new windows of opportunity for service providers to deploy additional next-generation advanced services and solutions that will increase profitability and drive competitive differentiation in an increasingly blurry landscape of wired, wireless and satellite-based service providers. Today, Motorola's integrated, end-to-end Multi-Service Access solution's proven deployment economics are assisting telecommunication service providers in delivering over a half a million streams of standards-based digital video services to subscribers throughout the world. 'MTS TV service truly makes MTS a one-stop-shop for our customers'home communications and entertainment needs,'said Cheryl Barker, President and COO of MTS Communications Inc. 'The Motorola Multi-Service Access Platform supports our aggressive plans to offer additional advanced services in the future, and to scale the system to accommodate over 100,000 subscribers throughout metropolitan Winnipeg. MTS chose Motorola because it had the most proven, reliable and fully integrated solution capable of delivering the range of services we wanted.' 'Motorola's solutions for telecom service providers are designed to enable the fast and cost-effective rollout of advanced consumer services -- without rebuilding the network,'said Bruce Swail, Motorola vice president and general manager and president, Motorola Next Level Communications. 'MTS is a trailblazer in the TelcoTV market -- with an impressive first year deployment rate of over 10,000 subscribers. The Motorola platform's scalability ensures MTS will be able to seamlessly address its franchise build-out -- while providing next generation advanced services to hundreds of thousands of customers.' MTS TV currently reaches over 42 percent of Winnipeg, and will cover 85 percent of the city by the end of next year. The all-digital service features over 200 television channels, music, and an unparalleled choice in channel packaging. Motorola Multi-Service Access Platform Motorola's access platform delivers any combination of 'triple-play' services (telephony, high-speed Internet and digital video) through one common platform using xDSL applications via Digital Loop Carrier and FTTP technologies. No matter how complex the service mix and how varied the deployment scenarios, customers deploying the Multi-Service Access Platform will be using common access equipment, common management systems, and common gateway technology to deliver a consistent customer experience, whether served through existing copper or fiber. About MTS MTS is Manitoba's preeminent, full-service telecommunications company. Seamlessly blending innovative solutions and world-class technology, MTS connects its customers to the world. Qunara Inc., MTS's eCommerce, eBusiness and Internet Data Centre subsidiary, provides business solutions across North America. MTS's common shares are listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange (trading symbol: MBT). Its Web site is located at mts.ca . About Motorola Next Level Communications Through its Next Level Communications product suite, Motorola is a world leader in integrated broadband access platforms for delivering any combination of voice, high-speed data and multi-stream digital video services into the home or office. Next Level offers a unified multi-service, multi-band platform that lets communications service providers deliver a virtual communications and entertainment center over existing copper telephone lines. For additional information, visit https://broadband.motorola.com/nlc/ . About Motorola Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that help make life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were $27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit people at home, at work and on the move. 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